Orlando Serrell

Orlando Serrell (born 1969 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American island gifted. He has his special abilities are unlike most savants not by birth.

Life

Orlando Serrell comes from a colored quarter of the city of Newport News in Virginia. He was a normal talented boy who likes played sports, including baseball. At the age of ten he was taken on August 17, 1979 by a baseball on the left side of his head and then briefly lost consciousness. He told his parents about the incident and did not even go to the doctor. However, he had a headache after the accident a long time.

Months later, Serrell found that he himself things like the number plates of cars in any number noted weather reports to learn by heart and could recite the lyrics of flawless pop songs. Since then he has no detail forgotten from his recollection.

When the media began to be interested in his abilities, he appeared in several local magazines. In 2002, he appeared at the New York Columbia University and was there with the help of an MRI his skills. On 13 January 2003, the BBC television beamed from a documentary on savants, which also Serrell was seen.

Orlando Serrell lives in Newport News, Virginia since its birth. He works as a janitor at a supermarket chain.

Skills

Serrell has since his accident a calendar brain: he remembers every single detail of every day and can recite any such information. However, he turns his memory to not aware of.

His skill was reviewed many times by neurologists and autism researchers. It is not yet to be clarified, as it is possible Serrell, resorting to his Gedächtsnisinhalte. Even brain scans with CT scanners have brought no new insights.

Meanwhile Serrell has begun to expand its calendar capability to the time before his accident.

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